Archive for December, 2008

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Astrological milestones

At about 11:04 pm yesterday eastern daylight saving time1, the Earth reached the extreme of its latitudinal periodic oscillation2, representing the very middle of geographic summer in the southern hemisphere; the point at which the sun (sol) comes to an apparent stop (stitium). This naturally means it’s time to spend money for the sake of [...]

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Monday, December 22nd, 2008

More media coverage

A couple of months ago, I received a phonecall from a journalist from the Herald, who’d seen my appearance on SBS World News, and was interested in writing an article about the mobile phone dictionary project. A few things have happened between then and now, including conferences, holidays and a didjeridu performance by Nicole Kidman [...]

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